Márquez, Carlos Pablo --- "Agricultural Markets and Competition Policy in Latin America: Conflicts of Goals, Rules and Enforcement Policies – Comment on Gutiérrez Rodríguez" [2012] ELECD 425; in Zimmer, Daniel (ed), "The Goals of Competition Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: The Goals of Competition Law

Editor(s): Zimmer, Daniel

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857936608

Section: Chapter 25

Section Title: Agricultural Markets and Competition Policy in Latin America: Conflicts of Goals, Rules and Enforcement Policies – Comment on Gutiérrez Rodríguez

Author(s): Márquez, Carlos Pablo

Number of pages: 10

Extract:

25. Agricultural markets and
competition policy in Latin
America: conflicts of goals, rules
and enforcement policies ­ comment
on Gutiérrez Rodríguez
Carlos Pablo Márquez* 92




1 INTRODUCTION

The previous chapter by Mr Juan Gutiérrez-Rodríguez has shown a very
long picture of the `state of the art' regarding agricultural markets and
competition law enforcement in Latin America. Despite the fact that
there are several observations regarding form and methodology, in this
comment, due to time and subject constraints, I am only going to focus
on a set of general remarks on conflicting economic policies and the
enforcement of competition law in LATAM agricultural markets.
Before starting, I must state that most of the points I will raise here
are not explicitly stated in the chapter; several of them have been
deduced by a profound reading of the author's chapter. I apologize
in advance to the author for trying to read his mind, but it is my first
criticism that the author seemed tremendously shy of stating his own
perspective on the topic and played a passive descriptive role, showing
only what has happened in Latin America, avoiding more valuable
whys, shoulds and oughts. In fact, the more interesting questions of his
chapter `should competition laws be displaced by other public policies'
goals in agricultural markets in Latin America?' and `do agricultural
markets in Latin America have peculiar features that justify exemptions
or exceptions to competition laws?' have not been directly and explicitly


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